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one is to start construction again for, in the meantime, we had
leveled off the construction site, taken away all the building machines, and
thus Rattwitz no longer existed as a prepared construction site.
Q. Mr.
Ambros, you said it seemed contradictory to you to start building again after 3
months and especially in view of sums that had already been expended. Now, I
would like to know, did your personal opinion that this thing was contradictory
influence, in any way, the new regulation that it was to be started once more?
A. No, it had no influence at all. I was a technical man. I had no rank
of any kind in the Party or state which might have given me a chance to have
influence.
DR. HOFFMANN: Your Honors, first of all, in order to fix the
possibilities that were given on a legal basis and which could lead to penal
proceedings I want to submit Document Ambros
304, as Ambros Defense Exhibit 71.¹ That is an excerpt from the Reich
Law Gazette, Part I, the decree for the execution of the Four Year Plan from 18
October 1936. The next document is Document Ambros 305, Ambros Defense Exhibit 72,²
another excerpt from the Reich Law Gazette. This is the second decree for the
execution of the Four Year Plan.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHARE: Will your 304
be 71, Doctor? 304 will be 71 and 305, 72, I believe.
DR. HOFFMANN:
Yes. P
RESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Thank you.
DR. HOFFMANN: The last
named document, OA [Otto Ambros] 305, Exhibit 72, contains the penal provisions
which were issued for the implementation of the regulations of the Four Year
Plan. It says: |
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“Any violation of the order
and prohibitions contained in such regulations will be punished with
imprisonment and fine, the latter to an unlimited extent, or with one or other
of those punishments.” |
Q. I now ask you, Mr. Ambros, did you know that this regulation to
build another third buna plant was issued from an agency of the Four Year Plan?
A. Yes, I knew that. It was an order from the Four Year Plan.
Q. What did you do now to comply with this new demand of the Reich?
A. I discussed these questions with Mr. ter Meer. He took them up with
other gentlemen. I also reported in the CHEMA, Chemical Committee, and I began
to think of what could be done.
DR. HOFFMANN: Your Honors, as the first
reaction which Ambros had when thus new regulation to build the third plant
came about, I submit Document Ambros 306 as
Ambros Defense Exhibit 733. This |
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¹ Hitler's decree of
18 October 1936 on the execution of the Four Year Plan, reproduced in
subsection VII F2. volume VII, this series.
² Goering decree of 5
November 1936 on the execution of the Four Year Plan, ibid.
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Reproduced above in subsection D.
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